12 Oct
2005
12 Oct
'05
10:27 p.m.
Cowles, Robert D. wrote:
The obvious choice for the "identifier" is the public key. The drawback is that it would be good to change the keypair more often than you change identity.
:-)
Can you explain name collisions cannot occur?
Careful... I said "should", not "cannot"... CA's are supposed to "know" not to overstep their issuing boundaries through secret handshakes and such. -Frank.
-----Original Message----- From: Frank Siebenlist [mailto:franks@mcs.anl.gov]
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When you say "name collisions", you must be referring to either compromised CAs or errors as name collisions should not occur...
-- Frank Siebenlist franks@mcs.anl.gov The Globus Alliance - Argonne National Laboratory